Lydden
Lydden is a civil parish and small village in the Dover district of Kent, England.
Lydden is a civil parish and small village in the Dover district of Kent, England. The Lydden Race Circuit is located between here and Wootton to the west of the village.
Lydden village consists of a triangle of 3 roads: Canterbury Road, Stonehall and Church Lane.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Lydden
5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Lydden
- Airports
- London Gatwick (LGW), 99 km · London Stansted (STN), 106 km · Ostend-Bruges (OST), 114 km
- Stations
- Kearsney railway station, 3.1 km · Shepherds Well railway station, 2.7 km · Shepherdswell (EKLR) railway station, 2.8 km
- London → Lydden102 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £10–14
- London, Essex → Lydden102 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £10–14
- Luton, Luton → Lydden139 km · quickest by road, 2h 35m · £16–21
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Lydden
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Lydden. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inNational Express operates the 007 coach service from London Victoria Coach Station to Dover Pencester Road in the town, about from the ferry port.
- Get in{{go | name | url | address 51.126156 | long west of the central shopping area, and about a walk from the ferry port | phone | hours | wikidata=Q2666521 | content=The only remaining station in Dover.
- Get inThere is no shuttle bus between the station and the ferry port, so you will have to walk the roughly 1½ miles (2.25 km) or get a taxi.
- Get inRegular ferry services operate to Dover from Calais and Dunkirk.
- Get inThe ferry between France and Dover costs around €40 each way if on foot, and around €100 each way for a car with two passengers, although big discounts are available if booked in advance or with special offers.
From Wikivoyage: Dover (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Lydden
- Temple Ewellvillage in Kent, England, UK2.8 km
- Alkhamvillage and civil parish in Kent, UK3.4 km
- Rivervillage and civil parish in Kent, England3.9 km
- Swingfieldvillage and civil parish in Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, England, UK3.7 km
- Woottonvillage in Kent, United Kingdom4 km
- Shepherdswell with Coldredcivil parish in Dover, Kent, England2.2 km